Saturday, August 11, 2012

Grace To Me Part #7: Ministering to People

Grace is about relationship and love. You see yourself the way God sees you, then you automatically see people the way God sees them. God sees us a pure and innocent because that is the way He is. You can only see outwardly what you possess inwardly. I believe that is why “Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God.” If they are pure, then they see purity of God.

And a true grace minister loves people and trusts them to hear from God themselves. They will work themselves out of a job and gladly see the people grow into a mature relationship with their Father. It is a PRIVILEGE (not a burden) to get to love God's people. They get excited to get to see God's son's waking up! The calling is love (period). And to love properly is only birthed out of the ministers soaking up love for themselves. Correcting people really is to only help them recover their sight of who they are. It is not telling them where they are wrong and continually reminding them of past failures and areas of lack. True grace ministers will do it for free just because ministry is birthed from who they are. If they make a living from it, they see is as an honor and not a right. They only want to receive from people who are free with pure hearts and those who understand their innocence, their sonship, and generously give just because they want to. GLORY!

Even when you take away the responsibility of winning the loss, it becomes even more pressure free and liberty to just enjoy people. God speaks with them first. The words you say just resonate with the Truth the Holy Spirit planted in them in the first place. When we understand the great news, we can't help but talk about it. People will either embrace the truth, or continue to kick against the pricks. Either way, it is not our responsibility. It is just something that happens from loving them.

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